Slack’s and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms

New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

"When those invitations went out... somehow, your password hash went out with them."

Slack Resets Passwords After a Bug Exposed Hashed Passwords for Some Users

Slack said it took the step of resetting passwords for about 0.5% of its users after a flaw exposed salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces. "When a user performed either of these actions, Slack transmitted a hashed version of their password to other workspace members," the enterprise communication and collaboration platform said in an alert on 4th

A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years

The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either.